Substantive session of 1992 29 June-31 July 1992
Summary The present report, prepared by the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), presents an overview of the activities of ACC and its subsidiary machinery in 1991. The report contains a foreword by the Secretary-General, the Chairman of ACC, and three sections dealing with different aspects of the work of ACC. The first section of the report relates the actions taken by ACC with regard to the major substantive issues to which priority was given during 1991: development and international economic cooperation; the impact of the recent evolution in East-West relations; African economic recovery and development; emergency and humanitarian relief and assistance; environment and development; and operational activities for development. The second section concerns financial, administrative and personnel issues. Other matters, including action taken by ACC regarding programme matters, implementation of the conclusions and recommendations of the Joint Meetings of the Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) and ACC, coordination in the mineral and energy sectors, the prevention and control of AIDS, international drug abuse control, the Chernobyl accident, assistance to Namibia, implementation of the commitments made at the World Summit for Children, and industrial development, are dealt with in the third section of the report. The report also has four annexes and an addendum. The annexes contain lists of ACC decisions, reports and statements submitted by ACC to intergovernmental bodies, meetings convened under ACC auspices and documents issued by ACC in 1991. The addendum contains brief summaries of the activities in 1991 of the subsidiary bodies of ACC and of the ad hoc bodies convened under its auspices. (...) 3. Accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 93. In response to General Assembly resolutions 45/190 and 46/150, ACC has continued to develop coordinated programmes to deal with the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. In March 1991, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna was appointed United Nations Coordinator for international cooperation to the regions affected by the Chernobyl accident. 94. At its first regular session of 1991, ACC was apprised by the United Nations Coordinator of the background to the accident and its aftermath, the activities of the United Nations organizations in relation to the consequences of the Chernobyl accident and activities planned for the future. Among these was the IAEA-led International Chernobyl Project, an interdisciplinary, technical assessment of the radiological consequences and evaluation of protective measures, carried out in cooperation with local authorities in the affected areas. At the same meeting, ACC established an Ad Hoc Inter-agency Task Force to Address the Consequences of the Nuclear Accident at Chernobyl (ACC decision 1991/6). 95. The Task Force is responsible for providing guidance and support, from both the technical and the policy standpoint, on all aspects of the international assistance effort, and comprises 15 organizations and agencies of the United Nations system most directly concerned. 96. As a result of the continuing discussions held between the United Nations Coordinator and the authorities of the countries concerned, both at Vienna and in New York, and subsequently with officials in the capitals of those countries, it was agreed that a joint plan for international cooperation to alleviate the effects of the accident at the nuclear power plant should be prepared by the authorities concerned. It was further agreed that a meeting of interested donor countries should be organized at which the plan would be presented for financing. 97. The document outlining the requirements for socio-economic rehabilitation of the areas affected by the accident was prepared for the Chernobyl Pledging Conference and widely distributed. All States Members of the United Nations were invited to take part in the Conference, which was held in New York on 20 September 1991. In that connection, a United Nations Trust Fund for Chernobyl was established, through which, in addition to bilateral mechanisms, contributions could be channelled to the relevant organizations or technical agencies of the United Nations system. 98. Since the time of the Conference, which yielded contributions amounting to some $7.5 million in convertible currency, $3.4 million in non-convertible currency and a significant amount of in-kind assistance, efforts have focused primarily on the collection of funds pledged and the identification of priority projects in the joint plan. 99. Foreseen for the future, as indicated by the Secretary-General in his report on international cooperation to address and mitigate the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (A/46/215/Rev.1-E/1991/76/Rev.1), are a number of activities, such as management of the United Nations Trust Fund for Chernobyl, including disbursement of funds according to criteria to be established, and monitoring their use, and coordination of the activities of the United Nations system of agencies and organizations through the Inter-agency Task Force. ...
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